It seems to me that, apart from writers of genre fiction, there aren't that many people who have published as many as ten books. Which makes the meme rather dull.
I can think of *loads* of more-than-ten-published-books writers that cannot be classed as 'genre', and I am half dead with lurgy and have a non-working brane.
The meme is "authors I have read ten books by". Enlighten me on the list. A quick whizz around the book shelves for inspiration came up with quite a short list:
Anthony Powell CP Snow Orwell (I think) Peter Ackroyd Andre Gide (I think) Emile Zola
Right-o. Done without looking at the shelves because standing up is problematic,
Daphne de Maurier Graham Greene Mangaret Atwood Angela Carter Anthony Trollope Carl Hiaasen Gabriel Garcia Marquez Stephen King Thomas Hardy Muriel Spark Saul Bellow Sarah Paretsky Nina Bawden John Irving John Updike
And if I include children's writers....
Enid Blyton Elinor Brent-Dyer Arthur Ransome Lucy Maud Montgomery Robert Westall Joan Aiken Cynthia Voigt
And I reckon that's double-able based entirely on the contents of my bookshelves, if I could see them.
Others on my shelf who've published more than 10: Ian McEwan A. S. Byatt Salman Rushdie Russell Hoban
and Frank Moorhouse, although at least 6 of his books are short story collections (but often written around a theme or a cast of reoccurring characters).
I wonder if there's any author I've read ten books by. Edward Gorey possibly but, those are very small.If a single play counts as a book there's Shakespeare. If a single Canterbury Tale counted I could say Chaucer but, generally I get bored of even my favourite literary fiction writers before I hit ten books. I definitely haven't followed any genre series that long yet. Can't think of a nonfiction writer I read ten books by either...hmmm
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Date: 2005-03-04 08:42 pm (UTC)I can think of *loads* of more-than-ten-published-books writers that cannot be classed as 'genre', and I am half dead with lurgy and have a non-working brane.
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Date: 2005-03-04 08:55 pm (UTC)Anthony Powell
CP Snow
Orwell (I think)
Peter Ackroyd
Andre Gide (I think)
Emile Zola
Prove me wrong!
And get well soon!
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Date: 2005-03-04 09:23 pm (UTC)Daphne de Maurier
Graham Greene
Mangaret Atwood
Angela Carter
Anthony Trollope
Carl Hiaasen
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Stephen King
Thomas Hardy
Muriel Spark
Saul Bellow
Sarah Paretsky
Nina Bawden
John Irving
John Updike
And if I include children's writers....
Enid Blyton
Elinor Brent-Dyer
Arthur Ransome
Lucy Maud Montgomery
Robert Westall
Joan Aiken
Cynthia Voigt
And I reckon that's double-able based entirely on the contents of my bookshelves, if I could see them.
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Date: 2005-03-04 09:27 pm (UTC)I guess Dickens and Scott would be in there too.
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Date: 2005-03-05 03:52 am (UTC)Others on my shelf who've published more than 10:
Ian McEwan
A. S. Byatt
Salman Rushdie
Russell Hoban
and Frank Moorhouse, although at least 6 of his books are short story collections (but often written around a theme or a cast of reoccurring characters).
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